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Anti-work CEO Halts Hiring – Is the Future for "Idea Masters"?

Anti-work CEO Halts Hiring – Is the Future for "Idea Masters"?

Anti-work CEO halts hiring of junior and mid-level engineers, citing AI’s rising capabilities. Will creative thinkers and AI-savvy developers lead the future?

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Feb 08, 2025
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A post by anti-work founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia has sparked heated discussions in the tech community.

He announced that the company would no longer hire junior or even mid-level software engineers, a move that directly points to the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in software development and its potential impact on traditional engineering roles.

In his post, Lavingia detailed the codebase sizes of various products under anti-work, quantifying them in terms of "tokens" (tokens can be understood as the fundamental units of code):

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